The fire rises

The fire rises.

wat

portugal blaze it xD

an island that belongs to Portugal got too lit

>shadowtugal

portugal is burning a lot more than usual this year
I've already had a wildfire near my home and for the past 3 days the air is heavy with burnt wood smoke.
tomorow things should be better by the way things are going, but most of the landscape around my home is now burnt black

My family's beautiful Madeira REEEEEEEEEEE

I know that feel portugal

hope u okay :(

shh no tears, only carvão now

If only we could catch the people paying for the arsonings around the country, I'd be a happy man

How about we fucking buy some anti-fire equipment?buy more airplanes and helicopters for fuck sake,firemans are worthless

torchugal

because we have the left crying about muh military equipment and the liberals crying about superfulous spending
On the other front, our firemen are underpayed and under-supplied, when they were fighting here, one of the tanker trucks' motor died and they only managed to hold the line with the help of some tractors with water reservatories from the local populance as there was not enough water and the helicopters were busy fighting one of the 50 (?) other fires in the region.
Some of the firefighters deployed here were on dutty for 3 days non-stop

welcome to the desert of iberia

holy guacamole.. you guys need some help?

shit like this happens every year by this time, the diference is that we're having almost twice as many fires as usual.

The blame is as much for the heatwave as it is for the financial dificulties people are going through. Of the few arsonists caught, none had a profile of a arsonist, it was a career carpenter, a 67 year old retiree and a petty criminal.

why is your guys country so financially crap?

Because no one wants to work and everyone wants to reap the fruits of the labor from those that work.

It's not a coincidence that the degrees with the biggest rate of unemployed people here are from those related to management and business administration.

What have you done to Asturias and Galicia, you monster!

They probably meant that the first iberians was ruled by kings who was irish. Tarquinius superbus the last irish king of iberia was overthrown by the iberians who ruled iberia for a couple of centuries. Until sulla the great irish general overthrew the iberians and exterminated them in the social war. Now irish was running iberia again and a iberian wasnt seen in the region again until it was sacked by alaric and the iberians eventually killed or sent the black irish to ireland. Julius caesar was irish.
And that is why the irish set fire to portugal

just adopt so lazziez faire for awhile to get people to appreciate welfare state
t.murican economics expert

>darktugal

>Summer Bushfires
I can't wait

that is a very long story, a proper explanation would require explaining the last 200 years of our history to give an idea of how things came to be.

that being said, I'll try to make it short and easy:

>english ultimatum enrages the whole country, the king gets killed over it

>republican elites (i.e burgoise and some nobility) take down what's left of the government and make a republic - their own republic where plebians are kept in place

>they go bankrupt, and then again, and again. Also WWI, time for some vilagers to get mowed down by machineguns far away from home

>the military take over

>an economist takes over the military government

>some reforming happens as well as the industrialization process is restarted (all that shit I've mentioned stalled the countries industrialization for over 100 years)

>corporism ensues, as do the national programs to integrate the colonies

>time for WWII, this time it's not personal - we do a lot of war profiteering by selling raw materials for weaponry to both sides of the war

>cold war begins

>war on the colonies starts as both sides of the cold war droll over the riches of angola and mozambique

>military dictatorship gets overthrown by the military, comunism soon follows. Colonies are given to comunist rebels and civil wars start on colonies.

>1 year of full comunism reign of terror, nationalizations, worker takeovers, you name it...

>socialists and liberals work toghether to remove comunist menace

>USA blow up plane wit liberal PM inside (we'll never forgive this)

>socialists rejoice, taxes and welfare go up

>socialists take too many loans and need cheap loans - we join EU

>EU competition kills comunist uncompetitive industry but EU incentives keep the pockets full for everyone

>EU moneys become insuficient to compensente the absolute lack of everything

>government still keeps increasing taxes, even though that's what has been killing industry since the begining

>bankrupcy inbound

It's the fucking eucalyptus fault.

Meme maps are one thing, but this is too much, Australia.

eucaliptus makes a lot of money go around, and the trend is to further desforestate for eucaliptus plantations. both logging industry and papper industry are on it (the fires being connected to the first one)